One year after announcing the release of 93 games in five years, Take-Two announces the release of 93 games in five years

Almost a year after announcing plans to release 93 games over the next five years, Rockstar Games parent company Take-Two Interactive has once again announced that it will release 93 games over the next five years. This figure comes from the profits of Take-Two Interactive. call today, in which the company gave out the very specific number without acknowledging that a year had passed since it first gave out that number, or describing how its last year’s outings went. include in this planned list of exactly 93 titles.

Asked by an investor on the call to explain how the past year impacted numbers, Take-Two chairman Karl Slatoff appeared to indicate that “93 stocks in five years” as a benchmark started in 2020, and was not simply a new goal to start in 2021.

“The 93 titles that we put on there was a snapshot, it was a moment in time,” he said. “And we haven’t really given any updates on this since. Of course, things are moving all the time, it hasn’t really been that long since then, so you can’t really expect there to be. has a lot of movement, but I can tell you for sure that there are things that have fallen and others that are returning. But in general, these are still very good numbers. We would expect this to happen. pipeline to be smooth as we get things through different stages so that will change over time, but we haven’t provided any further updates other than the initial announcement we made. “

He also broke down some stats on the company’s expectations for those 93 titles, which incidentally are still the same stats he gave in May of last year: 63 titles are “core gaming experiences.” , 17 are “mid-core” and 13 are “relaxed.” He expects 47 of the versions to be existing IPs while the rest are new IPs. 72 are planned for console, PC and streaming services, with seven of these 72 moving to mobile; 23 of the 93 will be on mobile only. And 67 of the games will be premium versions, while 26 will be free.

That’s not to say Take-Two hasn’t progressed towards that 93-release target over the past year. In 2020, its subsidiaries released a number of games, including Disintegration from Private Division, and numerous games from 2K Games, including Carnival Games, NBA 2K21, XCOM: Chimera Squad, WWE 2K Battlegrounds, and Mafia: Definition Edition. It has also released various DLC packs (which Slatoff previously predicted did not count towards the 93 versions of the game) as well as older games re-released on new platforms, such as Borderlands 3 and NBA 2K21 coming to next-gen platforms, and BioShock: The Collection is coming to Nintendo Switch – it’s unclear if these would be included in the 93.

It is also likely that this figure is indicative of a milestone set in the current fiscal year, of which Take-Two is still in the middle and which ends on March 31, 2020. It is possible that the company will give a more update Full on its progress towards 93 game releases in its next quarter financial statements, which will include its annual results and new year goals.

Upcoming games that could potentially make it into that number include the as yet unannounced GTA 6, a new BioShock game, Kerbal Space Program 2 (which has been delayed to at least 2022) and the usual annual roster of 2K Sports titles, including including NBA 2K.

Take-Two reported another solid quarter of earnings, including new record milestones for GTA Online and Red Dead Online, the first seeing engagement numbers increase following the release of Cayo Perico Heist at the end of the year last.

Rebekah Valentine is a journalist at IGN. You can find her on Twitter @duckvalentine.